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Message: <blockquote data-quote="melody" data-source="post: 4287702" data-attributes="member: 14320"> Comments Made In The Year 1955:"I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it'sgoing to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.""Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be longbefore $2000 will only buy a used one.""If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter apack is ridiculous.""Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just tomail a letter?""If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hireoutside help at the store.""When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would somedaycost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in thegarage.""Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossibleto stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hairas long as the girls.""I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they letClark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seemsevery new movie has either "hell" or "damn" in it."I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put aman on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellowsthey call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas.""Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for$75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if somedaythey'll be making more than the president.""I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would beelectric. They are even making electric typewriters now.""It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few marriedwomen are having to work to make ends meet.""It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someoneto watch their kids so they can both work.""Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more; those Hollywood stars seem tobe getting divorced at the drop of a hat.""I'm just afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a wholelot of foreign business.""Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takeshalf our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the bestpeople to congress.""The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriouslydoubt they will ever catch on.""There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend. Itcosts nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel.""No one can afford to be sick any more; $35 a day in the hospital is toorich for my blood.""If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it."</blockquote>